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Milankovich cycle
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periodic changes in the orbital movements of the earth
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Encyclopedic overview
Past and future Milankovitch cycles via VSOP modelGraphic shows variations in five orbital elements: Axial tilt or obliquity (ε).
Eccentricity (e).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Milankovich cycle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.